Ruth Slenczynska Complete American Decca Recordings
A debut on CD for the American Decca legacy of Ruth Slenczynska , a prodigious Romantic age keyboard lioness . The biography for her Wigmore Hall recital in March 1957 claimed that the 32 year old Ruth Slenczynska had given 1600 concerts. Scarcely believably, perhaps, but no less so than other elements of her extraordinary life story making her public debut at the age of four, under the instruction of a tyrannical and abusive father, playing a Moz art concerto at the Salle Pleyel in Paris just three years later, attracting the admiration and tutelage of Cortot and Rachmaninov, apparently burnt out before adulthood. A first marriage and highlights such as playing for (and duets with) Harry Truman followed. Touring with Arthur Fiedler and B ost on Pops in the mid 50s taught Slenczynska how to work an audience and to draw strength from their attention, but she readily understood the imperatives of the microphone. The year before her Wigmore Hall date she began recording for the American Brunswick division of Decca at the label’s New York studios, and once their sales were boosted by the publication of her painfully honest autobiography in 1957, her albums won a ccl aim on both sides of the Atlantic. She has continued to perform and to teach well into her 90s, but this box is the first comprehensive tribute to her artistry. Born in California to Polish parents, Slenczynska was a Chopin pianist by nature and nurture, with a temperament and background that tended towards the extrem
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Format: CDArtist: Ruth Slenczynska
Release Date: 20 November 2020
Genre: Classical Music
Label: ELOQUENCE / D.G.
Distributor: Universal Music
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